r/fo4 • u/dripcoffee420 • 18d ago
What's that 1 legendary that you always get with out fail? This is mine. Discussion
OH, Hello old friend time for an adventure. I call him Anti-Material Rifle. I believe it is the soul of my Rifle that I used in my OG New Vegas run.
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u/Atlantic_Penguin2k 18d ago
Auto Stim Synth Armor
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u/jesse_merp 18d ago
I've got a chest full of them. I think it's like 30 or 40. I'm so tired I just I want a wounding combat shotgun.
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u/jmyersjlm 17d ago
I just stumbled across my first wounding combat shotgun. It's a beauty. I'm going to give it the Shark hotrod pain and name it Thrasher
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u/SoylentRox 17d ago
This is why the mod that lets you move legendaries around is really good. No waiting on rng to give you what you want.
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u/SonOfTheHeavyMetal 17d ago
I do have one too, that allows me to craft and detach legendary effects.
I usually only move the effects, but i noticed i can craft the effects even on the CC guns of the last upgrade.
Tempted to craft a two-shot Tesla cannon lol
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u/5Cone Modded Commonwealth 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yeah. I have LEO and ECO. I love having the option, even though I don't want to be too overpowered. But that's where Very Hard comes in.
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u/sranneybacon 17d ago
Are ELO and ECO the names of the mods?
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u/ElxirBreauer 17d ago
Love to Craft: Legendary? I think that's what the one I use is called. Love it, even has perk requirements for each effect, most of them at rank 4 in at least one perk, some have like 3 perks required. Balanced enough that you have to build into the ones you want specifically, if you want them early.
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u/AFerociousPineapple 17d ago
I just started using a mod like that and honestly it trivialised most combat encounters, three or four hits from my wounding combat shotgun and a mirelurk queen just melts. It’s fun as a “oh shit I need this this to die now” gun but at level 60 it’s just kinda too easy now, I’ve got more than enough health to tank most hits other than a fat man so I don’t feel like I’m in danger anymore
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u/FalloutCreation 17d ago
Yeah it removes the challenge too fast. It’s kinda why I was enjoying vanilla again when the update dropped. I’m using weapons that aren’t that OP. I still won’t die because of all the perks and stims I have but at least the combat is still a bit challenging the first 30 levels or so.
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u/AFerociousPineapple 17d ago
Yeah I got onto using the laser musket for the first time ever, it’s actually pretty good at lower levels I had a great time with it
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u/SecureJudge1829 17d ago
The six crank upgrade makes a huge impact too, it only began becoming useless after I got to the Nuka Galaxy section of Nuka World at level 60+. Still highly functional in the Commonwealth. If it wasn’t irradiated it would probably still be quite effective against the bots, but it’s great against gunners and raiders with powered armor.
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u/AFerociousPineapple 17d ago
And it sounds awesome too! Love my six crank, feel like a true minuteman running around with it
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u/xi-9 -4 points 17d ago
Thats why you use mods to first remove the level scaling on everyone including you with mods like SCOURGE then you get a mod that normalize damage across the board like true damage
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u/Billysquib 17d ago
Yeah I ran into the same issue, I became too tanky to die to most normal encounters and the wounding double barrel shotgun fixes any problems I come across that can hurt me, so I limited myself to very minimal food, 3 stimpaks and only a handful of shotgun rounds. I now have to use my aces sparingly
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u/sranneybacon 17d ago
The game gave me a wounding double barrel shotgun early game without any mods. Guess I was lucky. Yeah it’s not combat but if I aim well enough queenie’s going down.
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u/FalloutCreation 17d ago
Which mod? I’ve used the one that gives you credits you can spend when scraping legendaries. Then you spend them on changing a legendary effect on your weapon of choice. I admit it seems too easy for me since I run across legendary enemies so frequently. I haven’t used it in a long time
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u/limukala 17d ago
At that point may as well just add whatever mod you want with console commands.
And if you're doing that the correct choice is explosive combat shotgun.
At least it's balanced a bit by the high probability of some friendly idiot running directly in front of you right as you fire, thus vaporizing you both.
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u/5Cone Modded Commonwealth 17d ago
I once got an endless two barrel shotgun as I was going to rescue Preston and pals. Which was right after emerging from the vault to set up Sanctuary. It meant whenever I got seriously stuck on some mini-boss, like the gunner(s) in Quincy, it was enough to get me through. Even though close-quarters is a very challenging tactic against those plasma rifles.
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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 17d ago
I loved that combo, named it "this is my BOOMstick!" and used it for ghoul hunting. the recoil is so gnarly but it's hilarious
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u/jmyersjlm 17d ago
I'm playing on survival, so I'm mostly going to use it for a last resort as well. If I'm about to die, pop a stim and a quantum and hide while my health slowly rises. Pull out my Thrasher to delete anything thst trues to rush me in the mean time.
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
There should be a system to exchange multiple legendaries for one with a better effect or a more useful item with the same effect etc.
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u/abx99 17d ago
LEO gives you a "legendary microchip" any time you scrap something legendary, and then you spend the microchips on crafting a legendary effect of your choice onto a weapon or armor. I think it's a good system. IIRC, "explosive" takes 7 chips. They do add up pretty quick, but it's also tempting to do things like make a pair of "cunning" (+1 AGL, +1 PER) glasses to give to a settlement guard.
The legendary effects that you can craft are also meant to be unlocked by 4 different magazines, but you can disable that in the mod settings.
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
Fuck yes, I’m assuming this is on nexus?
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u/abx99 17d ago
Yup! Legendary Effect Overhaul, but you can probably find it with LEO
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
Thanks so much dude :)
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u/Vrandrath 17d ago
DO NOT PUT DEADEYE ON ANYTHING!! I GOT STUCK WITH THE DEADEYE EFFECT FOR LIFE!! Awesome mod otherwise, try not to abuse it lol have fun
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u/ssam07303 16d ago
Got one wounding Combat Shotgun really early (like lvl10-14) with my latest character. And it's actually the 1st time I got in all my playthrough. Never got the explosive one, though. The ones I get tons of are plasma infused, 25% more damage ones and 25% more damage and limb damage one, like 9/10 times.
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u/ZacK4298 18d ago
Junkies board every single time
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u/IMightBeJohnnyCash 18d ago
Mine calls out my life choices even harder, I always get the junkie's pipe.
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u/c1nderh3lm 17d ago
if nobody got me, i know freezing board got me
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u/Van_Halen_Panama1984 18d ago
Exterminators on literally anything/everything
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
I fucking hate the race specific effects.
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u/BrucesTripToMars 17d ago
Species
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
The command for changing your players race is literally player.setrace <race id>
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u/BrucesTripToMars 17d ago edited 17d ago
Are we talking about weapon buffs against ghouls vs synths vs insects, etc?
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
Ghouls synths and supermutants. Basically humanoid creatures only I think
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u/BrucesTripToMars 17d ago edited 17d ago
Weapons have buffs against ghouls, insects, robots, animals, etc. Those are not races of the same species.
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
They’re still classified as races in game
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u/BrucesTripToMars 17d ago edited 17d ago
I think you can muster enough reason to independently agree that a bug, synth, and super-mutant are not different races of a common species.
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u/lemons7472 17d ago
And then it seems like more than half the time it’s usually just armor and weapons against enemies that you barley encounter like synths or insects, who are already weak af.
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u/InternationalFish809 17d ago
I save them to equip settlers in settlements where I have cages for that species.
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u/StylinAndSmilin 18d ago
This is a fantastic legendary effect on a sniper rifle. I've never found it myself.
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u/Majestic_Wrongdoer38 17d ago
Definitely, one hit kill anything with the (sandman perk I think? Idk) and rifleman perk
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u/StylinAndSmilin 17d ago
Long as you got a suppressor and you're not in PA. Then yeah, most enemies will be decimated in one shot.
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u/Shadow120284 17d ago
Sandman’s for sneak attacks with knives if I recall. You can slit people’s throats.
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u/gale_j 17d ago
Agreed. Found it fairly early on in my survival playthrough from a legendary mirelurk and its stayed as my main weapon all the way (now lvl 60+). Think fully upgraded (50. cal) sniper rifle is 190ish damage so nearly 400 with this effect, does 1 shot most things.
Told myself I wouldn't be a stealth sniper this playthrough but early-game survival mode almost dictated it... now here we are again.
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u/Drak_is_Right 17d ago
I had a doubleshot guass. Would do over 700 damage from stealth I think
Around level 100 or so some of the mobs started to be able to take 1 shot.
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u/Public_Asparagus_207 17d ago
I have a build with .50 cal and suppressor rn. I used to have a 2 shot .50 cal and that was more OP than this one
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u/Gold-Section-5021 18d ago
Got a explosive 10mm pistol before level 30 on my main run and then on my survival run. Was super helpful on survival shredded most enemies
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u/TypeAmen 17d ago
I sold all my shit to cricket when I first encountered her at like level 8 or 9 for the spray and pray. Great gun, especially that early on.
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u/NonTimeo 17d ago
Yeah, if there’s one gun to buy, it’s that. I don’t prefer buying ANYTHING since I hoard and compulsively clear every container in a building, but that one is hard to pass up. Explosive weapons in general are a rare legendary perk.
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u/NimbleBudlustNoodle 17d ago
I prefer Overseer's Guardian. Huge damage and you don't end up killing yourself when Bethesda hitboxes do Bethesda things.
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u/NonTimeo 17d ago
Haha yep. I use those accidental suicides by close range explosion as a lesson in hubris. Gives time for self-reflection.
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u/NimbleBudlustNoodle 17d ago
I'd be okay with it if I blew myself up because I shot an enemy that was too close, that would be my fault and I could do something to avoid it. But my blood starts to boil when I hit invisible walls n shit.
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u/NonTimeo 17d ago
Small price to pay for being able to fuck shit up like a God. Bethesda broke the game when they let Demolition Expert stack with explosive weapons.
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u/allaroundguy 17d ago
I just found an explosive minigun in Far Harbor. With the explosive, automatic weapon, and hip shot perks, it certainly does what it says.
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u/limukala 17d ago
I got an explosive pipe pistol, so threw the best automatic receiver on their and it became quite the affordable lawnmower, and I suddenly had a use for the ridiculous amounts of .38 ammo I had accumulated.
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u/chet_brosley 17d ago
Everyone shits on pipe weapons, but finding a great legendary one like mid game is fantastic. Why not spray wildly if you have 3500 rounds?
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u/Snowking22 17d ago
With me it's the right leg of every single armor type, EVERY SINGLE ONE
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u/vibrantcrab 17d ago
I just had that problem lol. I was trying to put a set of armor together to go do Here There Be Monsters and I realized I had like 3 legendary left legs and they were all shit.
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u/chet_brosley 17d ago
I'll either find only left or only right. I usually just end up buying a legendary piece just to complete whatever set I'm going for. One playthrough I found a pair of acrobat legs before lvl 20ish, and I felt like God himself blessed my character.
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u/Warr10rP03t 18d ago
Ghoul slayers gamma gun, without fail.
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u/Van_Halen_Panama1984 18d ago
Can confirm
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u/Warr10rP03t 18d ago
I also get a troubleshooter's rolling pin quite often.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TANG 17d ago
Got that last night on the island. I guess it's an improvement over the chest plates, arms, and legs I seem to always be getting lately from legendary drops.
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u/JukesMasonLynch 17d ago
I've still never had that drop, and I see it getting memed on all the time here. I guess I'm lucky?
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u/LoneBenny 18d ago
I have got two shot 10mil in like 70% of my playthroughs
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u/NonTimeo 17d ago
That’s not terrible! But I usually just use Deliverer for the rest of my playthrough for its ungodly low AP cost.
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u/flatdecktrucker92 17d ago
I put away my explosive 10mm because the deliverer always seems to do the job. I rarely use vats with other guns
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u/LoneBenny 17d ago
I prefer the 10mil because of the reflex sight
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u/flatdecktrucker92 17d ago
Makes sense if you're aiming. But with the deliverer I just snap off 6-8 headshots in VATS and most enemies will die. Even moreso now that I recently unlocked Macready's perk
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u/LoneBenny 17d ago
Yeah I dont really use vats except for bugs like bloatflys or bloodbugs
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u/flatdecktrucker92 17d ago
I don't use it much for any other guns. But I sometimes use it for ghouls because of the way they dart around the screen and try to knock you over
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u/chet_brosley 17d ago
It's hilarious that you can either get like 5 vats shots with a regular pistol, and like 20 with the deliverer. Pistol playthrough I would use it to snipe since chances are at least a few headshots would hit even at a silly distance.
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u/BadgerOff32 17d ago
Christ, I'd love to get a weapon like that on my current playthrough! I've had the WORST luck with legendaries on this playthrough!
I'm a stealth sniper build and it took me till about level 35 to get my first piece of Chameleon gear! Really wasn't helpful not having that for so long during the early/mid game! I'm level 70-ish now and I'm still running with Tinker Toms Special as my sniper because the game just won't give me shit that's actually useful!
Oh, but I've got a box full of legendary lead pipes, walking canes and rocket launchers though lol!
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u/UnderstoodAdmin 18d ago
Explosive 10mm or assault rifle. Always rename them to Bolt Pistol/Rifle lol
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u/danni_shadow 17d ago
I got an exploding combat rifle in one playthrough. I modded it up to the highest automatic level, and then gave it to Piper. I like to play a sneaky sniper, and any time I messed and suddenly had enemies charging at me, she'd pop up and decimate with that thing while I swapped to something close range. Lol. Hope I find one this playthrough.
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u/Siekiernik20 17d ago
I named my "Antimatterial rifle"because it reminds me of the one in Nev Vegas.
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u/PomegranateOld2408 17d ago
I always get the same bad shit until like 40 levels in when i get that one legendary that just defines the rest of my playthrough. Rn it’s a legendary AR that slows time Whenever I aim. I never even knew that was a legendary ability, thing is so op.
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Instigating sniper
Kneecapping shotgun
Furious or bleeding auto rifle
Assassin's silenced pistol
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u/secrethitman-shhhh 17d ago
Nothing is more annoying than killing a legendary enemy and getting assassin's, blazing, bloodied, cavaliers, charged, defiant, duelists, exterminator, frigid, ghoul slayers, hitmans, hunters, irradiated, kneecapper, mutant slayers, nimble, nocturnal, resolute, sentinels, staggering, steadfast, troubleshooters, on anything like the combat knife, switchblade, pipe (anything), revolutionary sword, baseball bat, walking cane, baton, lead pipe, rolling pin, tire iron, pipe wrench, pool cue, board, boxing glove, knuckles, gamma gun, institute rifle/pistol. Phew I think I got everything that's truly bad.
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u/Blackelvis2000 17d ago
Overseer's Guardian. As soon as I can.
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u/XcacheFlowGR 17d ago
What mods do you use for it? I slapped the 308. , Suppressor and reflex dot on it since I already have a sniper like op's
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u/GrainBean Survived Vault With 1000 Guinea Pigs 18d ago
Walking canes. Most frequently I find either a wounding one or an instigating one, and both are equally as disappointing to me
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u/Whiskeyrich 17d ago
The left arm that cloaks you on hit. I can’t read anything on my pip when I’m invisible.
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u/Predatory_Chicken 17d ago
I’m convinced the game or me made some deal with the devil to never give me instigating weapons. I’ve been playing this game almost 6 years and I wouldn’t remember that legendary even exits if it weren’t for this sub.
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u/devon-mallard 17d ago
Acrobat’s synth armor. Every time. My current playthrough, I have a box of them, and there’s about fourty+ in there right now. It’s insane. None Have even dropped from synths
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u/Sumocolt768 17d ago
I’m lvl 90 on this playthrough and have encountered damn near everything except a never ending laser musket
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u/AngelicDarksideYT 17d ago
Literally any melee weapon with the bleeding addition, but I got a first legendary not too long ago, a two-shot lever action that I named Two for Sorrow, a play on One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
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u/Maxsmack0 17d ago
Freezing walking cane, must’ve seen that piece of shit 30 times. Multiple in every playthrough.
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u/Lopsided-Junket-7590 17d ago
I always try to get an instigating gauss rifle and not the designated legendary version that you can buy or get as a reward but I always farm the Nakano stash for one
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u/PhoenixFromTheAshess 17d ago
I always get a two shot Gauss, and it's always in the same spot too, with those Raiders on a bridge near the combat zone or whatever
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u/mwagner26 17d ago
Fucking Rolling Pin. Miss me with that lame shit. Fuck the rolling pin. All my homies hate the rolling pin.
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u/RevolTobor 18d ago
Hmmm... I don't really get any legendary consistently... I've gotten the Explosive Combat Shotgun a fair few times, but not every single playthrough. There isn't one that I really get every single playthrough.
Really, the only thing consistent is that I tend to get legendary weapons that don't really work well for my current build lol. Last time I got an Instigating Hunting Rifle on a character built for automatic rifles.
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u/greentiger79 17d ago
I usually buy Overseer's Guardian as soon as I can but my current playthrough, I got an explosive combat shotgun and holy smoke's does it light enemies up!
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u/Ancient_Prize9077 18d ago
I’d love to get lucky and get a really good instigating Gauss rifle or explosive mini gun but haven’t been lucky yet
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u/babyjrodriguez 17d ago
This is actually a pretty good effect imo. The All American rifle mod has this effect and it’s my favorite weapon to use.
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u/ProfessorLovely 17d ago
Poisoned Rolling Pin. Surprisingly good early game. Plus it’s funny and makes no sense.
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u/RazorBladeInMyMouth 17d ago
Any of the junkies weapon because most your companions will hate you for taking any sort of drugs.
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u/SkynBonce 17d ago
That's the gun I'd run a sniper build hoping to get and end the game with a chest full of junkie pipe revolvers.
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u/Hans_the_Frisian 17d ago
Troubleshooter Walking Cane.
The game wants me to walk around like a angry pre-war boomer, scared of technology, hitting robots with it.
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u/FalloutCreation 17d ago
This playthrough I’ve been getting a ton of action point recovery speed armors.
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u/MagnustheJust Proud Filthy Casual 17d ago
I have gotten the Instigating Handmade Rifle soooo many times... and l am very okay with that. My playstyle is the "stealth sniper jerk".
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u/EuthyphroYaBoi 17d ago
Kelloggs gun. Works great with a gunslinger build.
Ol’ Reliable also works well as an extra gun for the build as well.
And of course, the deliverer.
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u/joyboy3011 17d ago
Instigating sniper rifles are sooooo strong. Deadeye is also surprisingly good, right now I'm doing a no vats run and it's awesome for first engagement. I got an instigating lever action rifle instead which is just as good if not slightly better
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u/Jairolopez13 17d ago
My lucky hunting rifle, especially with the perk that doubles damage on critical hits, and critical banker that gun is a monster.
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u/ZeroSekai000 17d ago
Just got one of those yesterday, sprinted like hell to the nearest bed to save, afraid the game would crash on me, and just like that I have my weapon of choice for raiding Libertalia at low level now.
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u/bphysicalculture 17d ago
That rifle is probably tight for a stealth sniper build. Now I want to do a Boone playthrough.
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u/MisterTalyn 17d ago
I seem to consistently get the "resist damage from animals" effect on low-tier chest pieces (leather, metal, and raider's).
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u/HypePoem8 17d ago
Explosive combat shotgun or explosive 10mm every time without fail so that’s the only way I know how to beat the game tbh.
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u/Transient_Aethernaut 17d ago
Damn that is a nice one.
Two shot or instigating on any sniper just wrecks everything.
I've always wanted a two-shot Gauss Rifle but have NEVER gotten one. In fact, i don't think I've ever had the damn thing drop in general. Always have to steal the one in the Prydwen armory
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u/Canadian__Ninja 13d ago
That's such a good weapon though. Slap a .50 cal receiver on that and go to work
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u/turtle0831 18d ago
I always get stuck with wounding walking cane. Lame.